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  1. Re:Must be a new definition of "unique" on No App Store For Microsoft's Zune HD · · Score: 1

    Apple is also trying to sell stuff that's useful outside the US - HD radio doesn't exist elsewhere.

  2. Re:HD radio on No App Store For Microsoft's Zune HD · · Score: 1

    You're a fool and if you believe any of it I have a bunch of electric cables to sell you, 3.000$ the metre, it will make your recordings sound warm and like you were on stage with the musicians.

  3. Re:Maplethorpe on Australia's Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    You're a moron

    Poe died of his alcoholism and Van Gogh drove cut his fucking ear.

  4. Re:why can't folks pay for their own devices? on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 1

    LOL - SMS on a not qwerty keyboard when it's the only way you can use a phone is not an option - I've used a cheapass nokia candybar all of two weeks before I decided to throw away the piece of shit.

  5. Re:Maplethorpe on Australia's Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't exist actually... Oh who am I kidding, I think this type of poser just does it for the prestige and doesn't realize that half these plays are about people getting drunk, or murder, or sex. Hell, I'm pretty sure 99% of the people who acclaimed Eugen Onegin at the Chicago Opera House when it was there have absolutely no clue that Tschaikovsky used the duel in it to build up homosexual tension between the male characters. It's just music/theater/etc, why of course it has no hidden meaning where the author is obviously passing as much crap behind the censors as can be done, if there's even censors to satisfy.

  6. Re:That's the closest anyone has come so far on OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the info (I'm all of 24yo and was almost a toddler when the current-gen *nix OS were born, so yeah) - but

    Unix was conceived as an interactive environment for programming, and is sill the only OS worth using for a programmer

    I appreciate your courage, you'd have been taken apart by the dotnet lovers in that other article (and maybe by those who still think Basic in any form is a programming language and not a "what not to do" guide)

  7. Re:It...can't...be on Maori Legend of Man-Eating Birds is True · · Score: 1

    Look, the irish have cattle raids, of course there had to be a people where the great epic hero was a poulterer or something :p

  8. Re:Microsoft's response on Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs · · Score: 1

    One botnet of each with merely a thousandth the infected bots you'd find in the same botnet running windows, too.

  9. Re:I really like OpenSolaris on OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users · · Score: 2, Funny

    I often try -with-a-black-rooster-to-the-gods-of-GNU in desperation, it never works, but who knows, maybe somebody with my ridiculous sense of humor does exist on their team.

    (complete aside I'm actually considering OpenSolaris heavily on the server and following what a friend told me re "learn Sun's tools even if you rip them out when you're doing the real job" - although I'm still going around esp. since I still think Linux with BSD or Plan 9 userland might be an interesting possibility to at least try - I know both have been done but never distributed, mostly for in-shop limited deployment use)

  10. Re:I really like OpenSolaris on OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not particularly devoted to the GNU tools, but... sadist.

  11. Re:you can get that today on How the iPod Nano's Video Abilities Stack Up · · Score: 1

    Which is again, Euro prices tend to be roughly the same as US prices because taxes are counted before, not after as is don in Canada and the US, but point taken, although still.

  12. Re:Its a Server OS... on OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    You couldn't because Linux wasn't started as a server OS but as a desktop OS (and before that a terminal emulator), it just happens some server people liked it enough to work on it.

  13. Re:you can get that today on How the iPod Nano's Video Abilities Stack Up · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you checked, but the highest I've found it is 900$ for the 32GB, true it's still more than the Nokia 900, and it still competes with entry level DSLR, but your guesstimate is either "hey let's assume the GPB price will be the same in the US" or wild pulling out of ass.

  14. Re:Blame Apple and iTunes users... on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    Newsflash - the ITMS had iTunes plus and has now removed the DRM in most, probably all, of regular ITMS

  15. Re:The blowback from this wouldn't be good... on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    Point 1 - And then they vote out the ancien regime

    Point 2 - taken.

  16. Re:The blowback from this wouldn't be good... on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    LOL, What is this, the '50s?

  17. Re:"The company refused to release [...] retail pr on Start-up Claims SSD Achieves 180,000 IOPS · · Score: 1

    The secret: they're actually trying to price the 2gb model and scaling from there.

  18. Re:Yay. on Start-up Claims SSD Achieves 180,000 IOPS · · Score: 1

    Indeed

  19. Re:Eww on iPhone Gets .Net App Development · · Score: 1

    I miss Explorer.exe and hdll so much...

  20. Re:I stopped buying games on Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM · · Score: 1

    Checking LGP, they're selling some games at roughly 2.5 times times their launch price, and lamenting a lack of sales. Even Aspyr gets away with a few of these and they're a heavyweight on the mac for games. If the effort to port a game was worth 3 times the price of it, Frictional wouldn't sell Penumbra the same everywhere, and even Introversion's mac ports by a third party only add 5$ to the original cost of the game.

  21. Re:Enforcing artificial scarcity is a poor strateg on Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM · · Score: 1

    They'd likely just have rented it.

  22. Re:Enforcing artificial scarcity is a poor strateg on Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM · · Score: 1

    And how many make money from giving works away for free?

    That would be most people who do shows.

  23. Re:Watermarking on Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM · · Score: 1

    There's a number of legal precedents that said no to this stupid idea afair, but IANAL and YANAL.

  24. Re:But DRM doesn't help THEM get paid on Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM · · Score: 1

    You mean how Strategy First ran away with their money when they declared bankruptcy?

  25. Re:Liberals know what's best for everyone on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    it means that people that have that trait tend to be liberals.

    Then tell the conservative peanut gallery to stop telling me how I should live, partisan moron.